Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-12-03
RALEIGH'S BUDGET.
The svsstpotato crop-Illieit pistillers--
Contract Awsrdsd-springs Purchased
Surrey Completed.
Especial telegram TO the Dispaich.I

State Auditor 10 all pensioners. TIL,
warrants are each for $500 and Their,
are $3.50 of them.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics to-da,
received report from the Carolina Cen
fr.l railway. IL has OCT miles of line il
the State and employs 736 persons
There are over twenty-five railroads il
the State, employing more than 5,00t
persons, and all OF them, save the Allan
tic and North Carolina road, have re
ported.
The Board OF Public Billings and
Grounds to-day awarded the contract fol
the steam heating OF the Capitol and the
new Suprcme-C Court ana library build
ings to a Pittsburgh, Pa, firm. Work
begins in week, and viii be pushed SO
rapidly that it will be completed in the
Supreme Court and Library building by
February LIST, in time for the spring
term Of the Supreme Court and the
Capitol will be heated by April LIST.
The Department Of Agriculture is in.
formed OF extensive damage to sweet
potatoes by the frost. The crop was
the largest ever raised in the State, and
this makes the amount OF loss very large.
wilkinson and Fore, of Alma, n. O.,
capitalists and owners OF the Alma and
Little Rock railway, have bought the
Cleveland Springs for $4,000. They
will build large hotel there.
Rev. c. Durham's resignation as pas
tor OF the Baptist church at Durham
was accepted last evening.
The barns, forage, and stock OF Rev.
]. II. Marlborough, in Rutherford coun-
ty, we're burned yesterday-it is sup
posed by an incendiary.
The engineer corps of the Durham
and Lynchburg road arrived at Durham
last evening and disbanded, having COM
pleted three preliminary surveys.
In The United States Circuit Court
here to-day b. f. Mclean was appoint
ed United States commissioner in Robe
son county and Z. w. Pou in Johnston
county.
Lieutenant Winslow has completed
the surveys OF the oyster bottoms IN
Dare county, and they are now ready
for entry. that county offers great
deal of such bottoms. Mr.. Israel Wat
SOC, ono OF the shell. fish commissioners,
has been with Lieutenant Winslow over
the ncwly-surveyed waters.
The stock law operates so well that
not word against 1t Is heard nowadays.
Away down in Currituck county two
townships tTull's and Moyock) will vote
on il the I'D instant. About one third
of the counties now have the stock law.
In Chatham county the revenue people
have Just captured and destroyed an
illicit whiskey distillery. In number
of sections of the State there is great
increase in illicit distillation, and traffic
and BLOCKADE whiskey is pretty COM
mon, il is limited.
A contract has been made for the
boring of Artesian wells at Wilmington
for furnishing drinking water. Not
much use for drinking purposes Is made
uf the water now furnished. 1t is taken
from the Cape Fear river, but is not fill
tered and often resembles the water at
Richmond. The drinking water at
Raleigh is always pellucid and is delicious
as beverage.
The annual session of the Grand Lodge
of North Carolina of cOlored Masons
will be held at Wilmington, beginning
on the 18th instant. The order has a
large membership.
Next Monday all bonded county Of
ficers in the State are required to renew
their bonds.
John Taylor was found dead in Will
mington day before yesterday. He was
lying in fireplace. Though he had
money he died in apparently the most
abject poverty.
The present term of Beaufort county
Superior Court will have enough capital
cases to look after. There are three
one of which, that of W. A. Potts, with
susan +. Lincke as an accessory, for the
murder of Paul Lincke, began this morn
ing. II. ID. Sasnette and Dave johnson
are to be tried for numbering Albin
Sstchwell last November. Eseck Station
will be tried for assault.
At Greensboro, on the 18th instant,
tue Winston and Fayetteville railroad is
10 be sold, or rather its franchises, &c.
The members of the powerful Farmers
Alliance are making great preparation
for the meeting of the Farmers State
Convention at Greensboro on the 18th
Of January. Captain 5. b. Alexander,
Of Mecklenburg, is the head OF the order
in this State. Tho farmers will be urged
TO join the alliance and so cooperate III
its work. The increase in the strength
OF the alliance is remarkable. The fact
j. it is already power, and will be felt
in politics almost beyond question.
On the Sth superintendent, steward,
and ra.r0n OF the colorod insane asylum
at Goldsboro' will be elected by the
Board OF Directors OF that well-managed
institution.
C. Haffen, the German who fraudu-
lently claims to be Il special agent OF the
United States Department of Agricul-
ture. has been in this State, and is now
believed to be in its borders. he is
quite keen swindler, and tries to get
checks and drafts cashed-
The great cotton-factory at Big Falls,
Alamance county, is well on the way
towards completion. 1t is 10 be one OF
the largest III that county, so noted for its
mills.
G. A. Armstrong; tobacco-barn, in
mObtf,Olucty CouAtys 10 ttBOAtto bea he0
with all his tobacco crop, the latter val
ued at $1,000.
In week from to-day twelve miles OF
the Durham and Henderson railroad at
the Durham end is expected TO be
graded, barring few " fills"
Mr.. Charles G. Daniels, who has owned
and edited both the Wilson Advance
and Kinston Free Press, has sold the
latter 10 Mr.. Hebert, who had for some
time been its local editor.
Durham proposes having q 1900
spindle cotton-mill--the largest in the
state. II is said that the capital stock
will be secured in few days.
The capital stock OF the Durham
Savings Bank has been increased from
s25, 900 TO $4,000. Duke & Sons, we'll
known arette-manuiacturer OF that
place, started as an experiment a savings
bank In private way for the benefit Of
their employees, and already the latter
hive Sl5, 900 on deposit.
Mr. A. Il. Page has returned from the
North, and tells me he has purchased
the engines, iron, &c., for his new road
from Blne's Crossing, Moore county, in
the direction Of Troy. Everything is
entirely satisfactory.